Editing Angels in America

{{Short description|1993 Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Tony Kushner}}
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{{Infobox play
| name       = Angels in America
| image      = Angels in America, Millennium Approaches (1993) poster.jpg
| image_size = 
| caption    = 
| writer     = [[Tony Kushner]]
| characters = Prior Walter<br />[[Roy Cohn]]<br />Joe Pitt<br />Harper Pitt<br />Hannah Pitt<br />Louis Ironson<br />Belize<br />[[Ethel Rosenberg]]<br />Homeless Woman<br />Angel
| setting    = New York City, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere, 1985–1986
| premiere   = May 1991
| place      = [[Eureka Theatre Company]]<br />San Francisco, California
| orig_lang  = English
| genre      = Drama
}}
{{Infobox play
| name       = Angels in America: Perestroika
| image      = 
| image_size = 
| caption    = 
| writer     = [[Tony Kushner]]
| characters = Prior Walter<br />[[Roy Cohn]]<br />Joe Pitt<br />Harper Pitt<br />Hannah Pitt<br />Louis Ironson<br />Belize<br />[[Ethel Rosenberg]]<br />Homeless Woman<br />Angel
| setting    = New York City, the Kremlin, heaven, and elsewhere, 1986–1990
| premiere   = November 8, 1992
| place      = [[Mark Taper Forum]]<br />Los Angeles, California
| orig_lang  = English
| genre      = Drama
}}

'''''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes''''' is a 1991 American two-part [[Play (theatre)|play]] by American [[playwright]] [[Tony Kushner]]. The two parts of the play, '''''Millennium Approaches''''' and '''''Perestroika''''', may be presented separately. The work won numerous awards, including the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]], the [[Tony Award for Best Play]], and the [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play]]. Part one of the play premiered in 1991, followed by part two in 1992.<ref name="shmoop">{{cite web|url=http://www.shmoop.com/angels-in-america-part-1|title=Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Introduction|publisher=Shmoop|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lahr |first=John |date=1992-11-15 |title=Tony Kushner and the Making of "Angels in America" |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/11/23/beyond-nelly |access-date=2025-04-18 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Its [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] opening was in 1993.<ref name="shmoop"/>

The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of [[AIDS]] and homosexuality in the United States in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains [[dual role|multiple roles]] for several actors. Initially and primarily focusing on one gay and one straight couple in Manhattan, the plot has several additional storylines, some of which intersect occasionally.

In 1994, playwright and professor of theater studies John M. Clum called the play "a turning point in the history of gay drama, the history of [[American drama]], and of American literary culture".<ref>"Introduction" in Geis, Deborah R.; Kruger, Steven F. (eds.) (1997). ''Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p.&nbsp;1, citing John M. Clum, ''Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p.&nbsp;324.</ref> It is widely described as one of the greatest plays of the [[Twentieth-century theatre|20th century]] and of all time.{{efn|1=Attributed to multiple sources.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lister |first=David |date=18 October 1998 |title='Waiting for Godot' voted best modern play in English |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/waiting-for-godot-voted-best-modern-play-in-english-1178953.html |access-date=16 October 2020 |work=The Independent}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130129192504/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk:80/discover-more/platforms/nt2000-one-hundred-plays-of-the-century Archive webpage by the National Theatre of the NT2000 One Hundred Plays of the Century]</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hickling |first=Alfred |date=2002-10-14 |title=Angels in America |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/oct/14/theatre.artsfeatures1 |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |quote=[[Unity Theatre, Liverpool|Unity Theatre]]'s brilliant vindication proves that Angels in America was not only the greatest play of the 1980s - it is one of the greatest plays of the last century.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-05-31 |title=The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/31/theater/best-25-plays.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=Tony Kushner’s “gay fantasia,” fusing the ambition, morality and underdog sympathies of earlier 20th century masters, felt not only like a great American play but like a culmination and reimagining of great American playness. It slammed a door open. That was 1993. Exactly 25 years later, the first Broadway revival of “Angels in America” started us thinking about what has happened to American plays in the meantime. Have they been as great? Is their greatness different from what it was? Is “greatness” even a meaningful category anymore?}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lawson |first=Richard |date=2018-03-26 |title=Review: Angels in America Returns to Broadway in All Its Triumph and Tragedy |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/03/angels-in-america-revival-broadway-review?srsltid=AfmBOorFsKAE72VhjrzueMuw36xrZSqiePDsxPz0_X3mCanqh0TZXOWi |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en-US |quote=One of the great plays of the 20th century has received a lush, uneven, thought-provoking revival.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=50 greatest plays of the past 100 years (1913–2013) |url=https://ew.com/gallery/50-greatest-plays-past-100-years/?srsltid=AfmBOorh_zVXqXpowbHvfOJZVym2b8H0rNzQ9GQpewoELC3Ciqe5VfMz |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=EW.com |language=en |quote=In his seven-hour epic, Kushner (husband of EW columnist Mark Harris) grapples with gay identity in the midst of the AIDS crisis and depicts characters both straight and gay, fictional and real (including deeply closeted McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn).}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Marks |first=Peter |date=2018-03-25 |title=Review {{!}} Forget 'important.' 'Angels in America' is brilliantly entertaining. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/forget-important-angels-in-america-is-brilliantly-entertaining/2018/03/25/b6e5c34c-2e04-11e8-911f-ca7f68bff0fc_story.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |quote=This is, to my mind, much more than a nostalgic reexamination of one of the high points of late-20th-century theater;}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-05 |title=Did the critics find Angels in America heavenly? |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/did-the-critics-find-angels-in-america-heavenly_43520/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |language=en-US |quote=It now stands as a canonical classic, probably the great American play of the late 20th century.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-28 |title=How Angels in America Became the Defining Work of American Art of the Past 25 Years |url=https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/06/oral_history_of_tony_kushner_s_play_angels_in_america.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate Magazine]] |quote=Both parts of Angels, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, put gay men at the center of American politics, history, and mythology at a time when they were marginalized by the culture at large and dying in waves.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Angels in America: The Dream Life of Angels |url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/theater/2010/10/26/angels-america-dream-life-angels |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=[[Out (magazine)|Out]] |language=en |quote=London's [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] declared it one of the 10 greatest plays of the century. The literary critic [[Harold Bloom]] included it in his Western Canon, one of only a handful of 20th-century plays so honored.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Teary Nathan Lane Wins Third Tony Award for Angels in America: 'This Award Is a Lovely Vote of Confidence That I've Been on the Right Path' |url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/192475/teary-nathan-lane-wins-third-tony-award-for-angels-in-america-this-award-is-a-lovely-vote-of-confidence-that-ive-been-on-the-right-path/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Broadway.com |language=en |quote=I'm standing here because Tony wrote one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, and it is still speaking to us as powerfully as ever in the midst of such political insanity.}}</ref>}}

In 2003, [[HBO]] adapted ''Angels in America'' into a six-episode [[Angels in America (miniseries)|miniseries of the same title]]. In the Sunday, June 25, 2006, edition of [[The Record (North Jersey)|''The Record'']], in an article headlined “An AIDS anniversary: 25 years in the arts”, Bill Ervolino listed the miniseries among the 12 best filmed portrayals of AIDS to date.<ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2003079432_filmaids25.html "An AIDS anniversary: 25 years in the arts"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622010444/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2003079432_filmaids25.html|date=June 22, 2011}}. ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', June 25, 2006.[https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20060625/filmaids25/an-aids-anniversary-25-years-in-the-arts]</ref>

In 2017, the play received a much-acclaimed [[West End revival]] that won the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival]] in [[2018 Laurence Olivier Awards|2018]]. Later that year the production transferred to Broadway, where it won [[72nd Tony Awards|three Tony Awards]], including [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]].  

==Plot==
===Part One: Millennium Approaches===
Set in [[New York City]], the play takes place between October 1985 and February 1986.<ref>{{cite book|title=Angels In America|date=2013|publisher=Theatre Communications Group|isbn=978-1-55936-384-6|edition=2013, Revised and Completed|location=New York|page=9|language=en|chapter=Millennium. Act I, Scene 1|last1=Kushner|first1=Tony}}</ref> The play begins at a funeral, where an elderly [[rabbi]] eulogizes the deceased woman's entire generation of immigrants who risked their lives to build a community in the United States. Soon after, the deceased's grandson, Louis Ironson, learns that his lover Prior Walter, the last member of an [[Old Stock Americans|old stock American family]], has [[AIDS]]. As Prior's illness progresses, Louis becomes unable to cope, and he abandons Prior during a health episode that lands him in the hospital. Prior is given emotional support by their friend Belize, a hospital nurse and ex-[[drag queen]], who separately also deals with Louis's self-castigating guilt and myriad excuses for leaving Prior.

Joe Pitt, a [[Mormons|Mormon]] [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] clerk in the same judge's office where Louis holds a word-processing job, is offered a position in [[Washington, D.C.]] by his mentor, the [[McCarthyism|McCarthyist]] lawyer and power broker [[Roy Cohn]]. Joe hesitates to accept due to his [[agoraphobic]], [[Valium]]-addicted wife Harper, who refuses to relocate. Feeling adrift and undesired by Joe, Harper retreats into drug-fueled escapist fantasies, including a dream where she crosses paths with Prior even though the two of them have never met in the real world. She confronts Joe about his deeply-closeted homosexuality, which he views as a sin. Torn by pressure from Roy and a burgeoning infatuation with Louis, Joe drunkenly comes out to his conservative mother Hannah, who reacts by changing the subject and hanging up the phone. Concerned for her son, she sells her house in [[Salt Lake City]] and travels to New York. After Joe confesses his homosexuality to a drug-addled Harper and leaves her, she flees their apartment and wanders the streets of Brooklyn, believing she is in Antarctica. Joe sets out to look for her, but follows Louis to Central Park, where they tentatively begin an affair.

Meanwhile, Roy Cohn discovers that he has advanced AIDS and is dying. Defiantly refusing to publicly admit he is gay or has AIDS, Roy instead declares he has liver cancer. Facing [[disbarment]] for misappropriating money from a client, Roy is determined to beat the case so he can die a lawyer in good standing, and he attempts to position Joe in the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]]  to ensure the case is quashed. When Harper disappears and Joe refuses his offer, Roy flies into a rage and collapses in pain. As he awaits transport to the hospital, he is haunted by the ghost of [[Ethel Rosenberg]], whom he prosecuted in her trial for espionage, and who was executed after Roy illegally lobbied the judge for the death penalty.

Prior begins to experience intense dreams and visions as his health worsens. He hears the voice of an angel telling him to prepare for her arrival, a flaming book erupts from the floor during a medical check-up, and he receives visits from the ghosts of two ancestral Prior Walters, informing him that he is a [[prophet|divine prophet]]. Prior does not know if these visitations are hallucinations caused by an emotional breakdown or if they are real. At the end of Part One, a glorious winged Angel crashes through Prior's bedroom ceiling, addresses him as "Prophet", and proclaims that "the Great Work" has begun.

===Part Two: Perestroika===
The play begins with a speech given by the world's oldest living [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]], Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, addressing a crowd in [[Moscow]] in December 1985. He condemns the reforms proposed by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], decrying the notion of progress without political theory, and declaring that the only way forward is to not move.

At the funeral of a friend, a shaken Prior relates his encounter with the Angel to Belize. After revealing the presence of a mystical book underneath the tile in Prior's kitchen, the Angel reveals to him that Heaven is a beautiful city that resembles [[San Francisco]], and God, described as a great flaming [[Aleph]], created the universe through copulation with His angels, who are all-knowing but unable to create or change on their own. God, bored with the angels, made mankind with the power to change and create. The progress of mankind on Earth caused Heaven to suffer earthquake-like tremors and physically deteriorate. Finally, on the day of the [[San Francisco earthquake]] in 1906, God abandoned Heaven. The Angel brings Prior a message for mankind—"stop moving!"—in the belief that if man ceases to progress, Heaven will be restored. Since the night of his vision, his health has once again started to decline. Belize believes that Prior is [[psychological projection|projecting]] his own fears of abandonment and death into an elaborate hallucination, but Prior suspects that his illness is the prophecy taking physical form, and that the only way the Angel can force him to deliver her message is for him to die.

Roy lands at the hospital in the care of Belize, where his condition rapidly declines. He manages to use his political clout to acquire a private stash of the experimental drug [[Zidovudine|AZT]], at the expense of withholding the drug from participants in a [[drug trial]]. Alone in the hospital and fighting disbarment, Roy finds himself increasingly isolated, with only Belize, who despises him, and the ghost of Ethel for company.

Prior goes to a Mormon visitors center to research angels, where he meets Hannah, who is volunteering there and taking care of Harper, who has slowly returned to reality but is now deeply depressed. Harper and Prior share a spark of recognition from their earlier shared dream, and witness a vision of Joe and Louis together. Louis is aghast to learn that Joe is a practicing Mormon and, regretting his actions and resistant to the intensity of Joe's infatuation, begins to withdraw from Joe. He begs Prior's forgiveness, which Prior angrily refuses, and Prior, who knows about Louis' affair with Joe from his vision, becomes deeply hurt that Louis is attempting to move on.

Joe visits Roy, who is near death, and receives a final, paternal blessing from his mentor. However, when Joe confesses he has left Harper for a man, Roy rejects him in a violent reaction of fear and rage, ordering him to return to his wife and cover up his indiscretion. Joe returns to Harper and they have an unsatisfying sexual encounter, which prompts Harper to realize their marriage is over. 
 
Prior, accompanied by Belize, jealously confronts a confused Joe at work, but the encounter descends into chaos when Belize recognizes Joe as Roy's protegé. Belize informs Louis about Joe's connection with Roy, whom Louis despises. Louis, as a result, researches Joe's legal history and confronts him over a series of hypocritical and homophobic decisions Joe himself wrote. The confrontation turns violent, and Joe punches Louis in the face, ending their affair.

Ethel Rosenberg watches Roy suffer and decline before delivering the final blow as he lies dying: He has been disbarred after all. Delirious, Roy seems to mistake Ethel for his mother, begging her to comfort him, and Ethel sings a [[Yiddish]] lullaby as Roy appears to pass away. However, with a sudden burst of energy, he reveals that he has tricked her, viciously declaring that he has "finally [made] Ethel Rosenberg sing". He then suffers a [[stroke]] and dies. After Roy's death, Belize forces Louis to visit Roy's hospital room, where they steal his stash of AZT for Prior. Belize asks Louis to recite the [[Kaddish]] for Roy. Unseen by the living, Ethel guides Louis through the prayer, symbolically forgiving Roy before she departs for the hereafter.

After his confrontation with Joe, Prior begins following him obsessively, neglecting his health. He collapses from pneumonia after following Joe to the Mormon center and Hannah rushes him back to the hospital. Prior tells her about his vision and is surprised when Hannah accepts this, based on her belief in [[Angel Moroni|angelic revelations within Latter-day Saint theology]]. At the hospital, the Angel reappears, enraged that Prior has rejected her message. Prior, on Hannah's advice, [[Jacob wrestling with the angel|wrestles the Angel]], who relents and opens [[Jacob's ladder|a ladder]] into Heaven. Prior climbs into Heaven and tells the council of Angels that he refuses to deliver their message, as without progress, humanity will perish, and begs them for more Life, no matter how horrible the prospect might be. He returns to his hospital bed, where he awakens from his vision with his fever broken and his health beginning to recover. He makes amends with Louis, but refuses to take him back. Meanwhile, Harper departs New York for San Francisco, leaving Joe alone.

The play concludes in 1990, five years later. Prior and Louis are still separated, but Louis, along with Belize, remain close in order to support and care for Prior, and Hannah has found new perspective on her rigid beliefs, forging a friendship with the three gay men. Prior, Louis, Belize, and Hannah gather before the angel statue in [[Bethesda Fountain]], discussing [[Perestroika|the fall of the Soviet Union]] and what the future holds. Prior talks of [[Pool of Bethesda#Gospel account|the legend of the Pool of Bethesda]], where the sick were healed. Prior delivers the play's final lines directly to the audience, blessing them and affirming his intentions to live on and telling them that "the Great Work" shall continue.

==Characters==
The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays [[dual role|two or more roles]]. Kushner's doubling, as indicated in the published script, requires several of the actors to play different genders.

=== Main characters ===
* '''Prior Walter''' – A gay man with [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]. Throughout the play, he experiences various heavenly visions. When the play begins, he is dating Louis Ironson. His best friend is Belize.
* '''Louis Ironson''' – Prior's boyfriend. Unable to deal with Prior's disease, he ultimately abandons him. He meets Joe Pitt and later begins a relationship with him.
* '''Harper Pitt''' – An [[agoraphobic]] Mormon housewife with incessant [[Valium]]-induced hallucinations. After a revelation from Prior (whom she meets when his heavenly vision and her hallucination cross paths), she discovers that her husband, Joe, is gay and struggles with it, considering it a betrayal of her marriage.
* '''Joe Pitt''' – Harper's husband and a deeply closeted gay Mormon, clerk at the [[United States courts of appeals|U.S. Court of Appeals]], Second Circuit, and friend of [[Roy Cohn]]. Joe eventually abandons his wife for a relationship with Louis. Throughout the play, he struggles with his [[sexual identity]].
* '''Roy Cohn''' – A closeted gay lawyer, based on real life [[Roy Cohn]]. Just as in history, it is eventually revealed that he has contracted HIV and the disease has progressed to AIDS, which he insists is liver cancer to preserve his reputation.
* '''Hannah Pitt''' – Joe's mother. She moves to New York after her son drunkenly [[coming out|comes out]] to her on the phone. She arrives to find that Joe has abandoned his wife.
* '''Belize''' – A nurse and former [[drag queen]], he is Prior's ex-boyfriend and best friend. He later becomes Roy Cohn's nurse.
* '''The Angel/Voice''' – A messenger from Heaven who visits Prior and tells him he is a prophet.

=== Minor characters ===
* '''Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz''' – An elderly [[Orthodoxy|orthodox]] [[Rabbi]]. He performs the funeral service for Louis' grandmother in Act one of ''Millennium Approaches'' and gives him advice on his situation with Prior. ''Played by the actor playing Hannah.''
* '''Mr. Lies''' – One of Harper's imaginary friends. A smooth talking agent for the International Order of Travel Agents. ''Played by the actor playing Belize.''
* '''Emily''' – Prior's hospital nurse, a no-nonsense Italian-American. ''Played by the actor playing the Angel.''
* '''Henry''' – Roy Cohn's doctor, who diagnoses him with AIDS. ''Played by the actor playing Hannah.''
* '''Martin Heller''' – A publicity agent to the Reagan Administration's Justice Department and Roy's [[toady]]. ''Played by the actor playing Harper.''
* '''[[Ethel Rosenberg]]''' – The ghost of a woman executed for being a [[Communist]] spy. She haunts Roy, whom she blames for her conviction and execution, as he dies. ''Played by the actor playing Hannah.''
* '''Prior 1 and Prior 2''' – The ghosts of two of Prior Walter's ancestors. Prior 1 is a gloomy Yorkshire farmer from the 13th century, Prior 2 is a cheerful 17th-century British aristocrat. They appear to Prior to herald the Angel's arrival. ''Played by the actors playing Joe and Roy, respectively.''
* '''The Man in the Park''' – A gay man Louis encounters while [[cruising for sex]] in [[Central Park]]. ''Played by the actor playing Prior.''
* '''Sister Ella Chapter''' – Hannah's realtor friend who helps her sell her house. ''Played by the actor playing the Angel.''
* '''A Homeless Woman''' – A crazed homeless woman Hannah encounters when she arrives in Brooklyn. ''Played by the actor playing the Angel.''
* '''The Eskimo''' – An imaginary friend in Harper's Antarctic hallucination. ''Played by the actor playing Joe.''
* '''Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov''' – "The World's Oldest Living [[Bolshevik]]", whose speech in the opening of ''Perestroika'' sets up the theme of whether the world should continue to move forward. ''Played by the actor playing Hannah.''
* '''Mormon Family''' – A mannequin family in the Diorama Room of the Mormon Visitors' Center where Hannah and Harper volunteer. The father resembles Joe, and later becomes him in Harper's delusions. ''He is played by the actor playing Joe.'' The mother comes to life in Harper's imagination and speaks to her. ''She is played by the actor playing the Angel. The two sons, Caleb and Orrin, are voiced offstage by the actors playing Belize and the Angel respectively.''
* '''The Continental Principalities''' – The Angel Council Prior confronts in Heaven. They are in charge of both Heaven and Earth after God's desertion. They are the Angels Europa (''played by the actor playing Joe''), Africanii ''(played by the actor playing Harper''), Oceania (''played by the actor playing Belize''), Asiatica (''played by the actor playing Hannah''), Australia (''played by the actor playing Louis''), and Antarctica (''played by the actor playing Roy'').<!--As of the 2013 Revised Edition, Sarah Ironson no longer appears in the play.-->

==Production history==
[[File:Angels in America 1993 lo res.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Front cover of the programme for the 1992 [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] production of part one of the play]]

''Angels in America'' was commissioned by the [[Eureka Theatre Company|Eureka Theatre Company]] in San Francisco, by co-artistic directors [[Oskar Eustis]] and [[Tony Taccone]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Angels in America: The Complete Oral History|date=June 28, 2016|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/06/oral_history_of_tony_kushner_s_play_angels_in_america.html|publisher=Slate}}</ref> It was first performed in Los Angeles as a workshop in May 1990 by the Center Theatre Group at the [[Mark Taper Forum]].

''Millennium Approaches'' premiered in May 1991 in a production performed by the [[Eureka Theatre Company]] of San Francisco, directed by [[David Esbjornson]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Public Theater at Stanford Presents: Artistic Team | url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/sica/ptny/artisticteam.html | work=The Bacchae | publisher=Stanford University | year=2007 | access-date=2008-06-26| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080610092243/http://www.stanford.edu/group/sica/ptny/artisticteam.html| archive-date= June 10, 2008 <!--DASHBot-->| url-status=live}}</ref> In [[West End theatre|London]] it premiered in a [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] production at the [[Cottesloe Theatre]], directed by [[Declan Donnellan]].<ref name=rnt>From the programme to the RNT's production of ''Millennium Approaches'' in 1992.</ref> [[Henry Goodman]] played Cohn, [[Nick Reding (actor)|Nick Reding]] played Joe, [[Felicity Montagu]] played Harper, [[Marcus D'Amico]] played Louis, and [[Sean Chapman]] played Prior.<ref name=rnt/> Opening on January 23, 1992, the London production ran for a year. In November 1992 it visited Düsseldorf as part of the first [[Union of the Theatres of Europe|Union des Théâtres de l'Europe]] festival.<ref name=rnt2>From the programme to the RNT's production of ''Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'' in 1993.</ref>

The play's second part, ''[[Perestroika]]'', was still being developed as ''Millennium Approaches'' was being performed. It was performed several times as staged readings by both the Eureka Theatre (during the world premiere of part one in 1991), and the Mark Taper Forum (in May 1992). It premiered in November 1992 in a production by the Mark Taper Forum, directed by [[Oskar Eustis]] and [[Tony Taccone]]. In November 1993 it received its London debut at the National Theatre on the Cottesloe stage, in repertory with a revival of ''Millennium Approaches'', again directed by [[Declan Donnellan]].<ref name=rnt2/> [[David Schofield (actor)|David Schofield]] played Cohn, [[Daniel Craig]] played Joe, [[Clare Holman]] played Harper, [[Jason Isaacs]] played Louis, [[Joseph Mydell]] played Belize and won the [[Olivier Award]] for Best Supporting Actor, and [[Stephen Dillane]] played Prior.<ref name=rnt2/>

The entire two-part play debuted on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the [[Walter Kerr Theatre]] in 1993, directed by [[George C. Wolfe]], with ''Millennium Approaches'' performed on May 4 and ''Perestroika'' joining it in repertory on November 23, closing December 4, 1994. The original cast included [[Ron Leibman]], [[Stephen Spinella]], [[Kathleen Chalfant]], [[Marcia Gay Harden]], [[Jeffrey Wright]], [[Ellen McLaughlin]], [[David Marshall Grant]] and [[Joe Mantello]]. Among the replacements during the run were [[F. Murray Abraham]] (for Ron Leibman), [[Cherry Jones]] (for Ellen McLaughlin), [[Dan Futterman]] (for Joe Mantello), [[Cynthia Nixon]] (for Marcia Gay Harden) and [[Jay Goede]] (for David Marshall Grant). ''Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'' were awarded, in 1993 and 1994 respectively, both the [[Tony Awards]] for [[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]] and [[Drama Desk Award]]s for Outstanding Play.

The published script indicates that Kushner made a few revisions to ''Perestroika'' in the following year. These changes officially completed the work in 1995.<ref>Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America: Parts 1 & 2'', [[Nick Hern Books]], London, 2007</ref> In 1994, the first national tour launched at the Royal George Theater in Chicago, directed by [[Michael Mayer (director)|Michael Mayer]], with the following cast: Peter Birkenhead as Louis Ironson, Reginald Flowers as Belize, [[Kate Goehring]] as Harper Pitt, [[Jonathan Hadary]] as Roy Cohn, Philip E. Johnson as Joe Pitt, [[Barbara E. Robertson]] as Hannah Pitt, Robert Sella as Prior, and Carolyn Swift as the Angel.<ref>{{cite news |author=Richard Christiansen |date=September 26, 1994 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/09/26/astounding-angels/ |title=Astounding 'Angels': First Installment Of Kushner Saga Jolts The Emotions |newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

The Australian premiere of ''Millennium Approaches'' was produced by [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] at [[Russell Street Theatre]] on 15 October 1993, running till 20 November 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/21155|title=AusStage : Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches| access-date=2024-02-26}}</ref> The Australian premier of the entire two-part play was also produced by [[Melbourne Theatre Company]], presented at the [[Arts Centre Melbourne|Playhouse]], Melbourne, on 30 August 1994, running through till 25 September 1994. .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25604|title=AusStage : Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches, and Part 2: Perestroika|access-date=2024-02-26}}</ref>

A Toronto production of both plays, directed by [[Bob Baker (director)|Bob Baker]], opened at CanStage's [[Berkley Theater|Berkley Theatre]] in November 1996 and ran for 8 months. The cast included Steve Cumyn (Prior), Alex Poch-Goldin (Louis), Tom Wood (Roy Cohn), [[Patricia Hamilton]] (Hannah, Ethel Rosenberg and others), David Storch (Joe), [[Karen Hines]] (Harper), Cassel Miles (Belize, Mr. Lies and others) and Linda Prystawska (Angel and othes).

Kushner made relatively minor revisions to ''Millennium Approaches'' and additional, more substantial revisions to ''Perestroika'' during a run at the [[Signature Theatre Company (New York City)|Signature Theatre]] in 2010, which were published in a 2013 complete edition. That production was directed by [[Michael Greif]] and featured [[Christian Borle]] as Prior, [[Zachary Quinto]] as Louis, [[Billy Porter (entertainer)|Billy Porter]] as Belize, [[Bill Heck]] as Joe, [[Zoe Kazan]] as Harper, [[Robin Bartlett]] as Hannah, [[Frank Wood (actor)|Frank Wood]] as Roy, and [[Robin Weigert]] as the angel.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dziemianowicz|first1=Joe|title=''Angels in America'' review: Zachary Quinto flies high in perfect revival of Tony Kushner play|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/angels-america-review-zachary-quinto-flies-high-perfect-revival-tony-kushner-play-article-1.186396|access-date=July 20, 2014|work=New York Daily News|date=29 October 2010}}</ref>

In 2013, a production of the two-part play was produced by Sydney-based theatre company, [[Belvoir (theatre company)|Belvoir]]. The cast featured Luke Mullins as Prior Walter, [[Mitchell Butel]] as Louis Ironson,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/where-angels-dared-to-tread/story-e6frg8n6-1226649460772|title="Where Angels Dared to Tread" &#124; The Australian|accessdate=May 14, 2023}}</ref> [[Marcus Graham]] as Roy Cohn, [[Ashley Zukerman]] as Joe Pitt, Amber McMahon as Harper Pitt, [[Robyn Nevin]] as Hannah Pitt, [[DeObia Oparei]] as Belize, and [[Paula Arundell]] as The Angel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2013/06/19/review-angels-in-america-belvoir-st-theatre-sydney/|title=REVIEW: Angels In America, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney|publisher=Crikey|date=2013-06-19|access-date=2018-03-15|archive-date=February 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180520/https://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2013/06/19/review-angels-in-america-belvoir-st-theatre-sydney/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The show ran from June 1 to July 14 at the [[Belvoir St Theatre]], before transferring to the [[Theatre Royal, Sydney|Theatre Royal]] for the remainder of its run. The production finished its season on July 27.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2013/06/angels-in-america-at-belvoir-street-theatre/|title=Angels in America at Belvoir Street Theatre|first=Dion|last=Kagan|publisher=Kill Your Darlings|date=2013-06-19|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/angels-soars-in-a-new-millennium-20130602-2njjn.html|title=Angels soars in a new millennium|first=Jason|last=Blake|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=2013-06-02|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref>

A second Toronto production by [[Soulpepper Theatre Company]] in 2013 and 2014 starred [[Damien Atkins]] as Prior Walter, [[Gregory Prest]] as Louis, Mike Ross as Joe, [[Diego Matamoros]] as Roy and [[Nancy Palk]] as Hannah, Ethel Rosenberg and the rabbi.<ref>[http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/08/08/theatre-review-soulpeppers-angels-in-america-is-heaven-sent/ "Theatre Review: Soulpepper’s ''Angels in America'' is heaven sent"] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20141012001339/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/08/08/theatre-review-soulpeppers-angels-in-america-is-heaven-sent/ |date=October 12, 2014 }}. ''[[National Post]]'', August 8, 2013.</ref>

''Millennium Approaches'' made its [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Fringe Festival]] debut, in a production by St Andrews-based Mermaids Theatre, in August 2013 to critical acclaim.

Asia premiered the play in its entirety in 1995 by the New Voice Company in the Philippines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fil-event.co.uk/blogs_/Meeting-Monique-Wilson---My-story.shtml|title=Meeting Monique Wilson - My story|first=Malcolm|last=Conian|publisher=Fil-Event|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref>

This was followed by another production in November 2014 at the Singapore Airlines Theatre.<ref>[http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/angels-in-america-part-1-and-part-2/ "''Angels in America'' Part 1 and Part 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205106/http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/angels-in-america-part-1-and-part-2/ |date=March 4, 2016 }}, LASALLE College of the Arts Events page. Accessed 11 October 2014.</ref>

An Italian adaptation of the play premiered in [[Modena]] in 2007, in a production directed by [[Ferdinando Bruno|Ferdinando Bruni]] and Elio De Capitani<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sipario.it/recensioniprosaa/item/1956-sipario-recensioni-angels-in-america.html|title=Angels In America - regia Ferdinando Bruni, Elio De Capitani|last=Arrigoni|first=Nicola|access-date=2018-05-18|language=it-it}}</ref> which was awarded several national awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elfo.org/stagioni/20112012/angelsinamericamadrid.html|title=angels in america|publisher=www.elfo.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-18|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519032826/https://www.elfo.org/stagioni/20112012/angelsinamericamadrid.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The same production ran for three days in Madrid in 2012.

In the fall of 2016, the Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, collaborated to present a 25th anniversary production of the play, offering Parts I and II in repertory.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatreindc.com/angels-in-america-millennium-approaches/2766/ | title=Angels in America: Millennium Approaches - Round House Theatre - DC }}</ref> ''The Washington Post''{{'}}s theater critic called it an "epically engrossing, acidly funny masterwork."<ref>{{cite news| last=Marks | first=Peter | title=Summoning those better 'Angels' | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=13 September 2016 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/summoning-those-better-angels/2016/09/13/d27638a2-79d9-11e6-bd86-b7bbd53d2b5d_story.html | access-date=14 May 2023}}</ref>

In April 2017, a new production began previews at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre, London]] in the [[Lyttelton Theatre]]. Directed by [[Marianne Elliott (director)|Marianne Elliott]], the cast included [[Andrew Garfield]] as [[Prior Walter]] with [[Russell Tovey]] as Joe, [[Denise Gough]] as Harper, [[James McArdle]] as Louis Ironson, [[Nathan Stewart-Jarrett]] as Belize and [[Nathan Lane]] as [[Roy Cohn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/national-theatre-announces-further-plans-for-2017-and-additonal-casting-for-angels-in-america-and-follies|title=National Theatre Announces Additional Casting for Angels in America and Follies |last=Shenton|first=Mark|date=October 11, 2016|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2017-04-18}}</ref> In [[2018 Laurence Olivier Awards|April 2018]], the production was nominated for six [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Olivier Awards]], winning for [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival|Best Revival]] and [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play]] for Gough.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/191405/hamilton-breaks-olivier-nominations-record-angels-in-america-the-ferryman-also-honored/|title=Hamilton Breaks Olivier Nominations Record; Angels in America & The Ferryman Also Honored|last=Lefkowitz|first=Andy|date=March 6, 2018|publisher=Broadway.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-06}}</ref> The production was filmed and broadcast to cinemas around the world as part of the [[National Theatre Live]] initiative, and later released in 2021 on the company's ''NT at Home'' streaming service.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gordon |first1=David |title=National Theatre Begins Streaming Angels in America With Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield |url=https://www.theatermania.com/london-theater/news/national-theatre-begin-streaming-angels-in-america_91902.html |website=TheaterMania |date=February 8, 2021 |access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref>

In August 2017, a new production of ''Millennium Approaches'' was brought to San Juan, [[Puerto Rico]], by Teatro Público Inc. Directed by Benjamín Cardona, the cast featured Carlos Miranda as [[Roy Cohn]], Jacqueline Duprey as Hannah, Gabriela Saker as Harper, and Liván Albelo as Prior. The production received critical praise and launched the new theater company.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/nota/eldirectorbenjamincardonaenfrentaungranretoteatral-2345243/|title=El director Benjamín Cardona enfrenta un gran reto teatral|date=2017-08-01|work=El Nuevo Dia|access-date=2017-09-06|language=es-pr}}</ref>

In September 2017, a revival of the two plays were staged in [[Melbourne]] at [[fortyfivedownstairs]] for nearly a four-week run. The cast included veteran actor [[Helen Morse]] as Hannah Pitt, and Margaret Mills (who had appeared in the original Australian premiere of the play in 1994) as The Angel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artsreview.com.au/angels-in-america-fortyfivedownstairs/|title=Angels in America|publisher=Arts Review|date=2017-05-23|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/angels-in-america-review-superior-acting-delivers-brilliant-and-moving-work-20170907-gycnmj.html|title=Angels in America review: Superior acting delivers brilliant and moving work|first=Cameron|last=Woodhead|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=2017-09-07|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref>

In February 2018, the 2017 [[Royal National Theatre]] production transferred to [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] for an 18-week engagement at the [[Neil Simon Theatre]]. The majority of the London cast returned, with [[Lee Pace]] replacing Tovey as Joe, and [[Beth Malone]] playing the Angel at certain performances.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-Lee-Pace-Joins-ANGELS-IN-AMERICA-on-Broadway-20171019|title=Breaking News: Lee Pace Joins Angels in America on Broadway|date=2017-10-19|publisher=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/190848/beth-malone-more-to-join-nathan-lane-andrew-garfield-in-angels-in-america/|title=Beth Malone & More to Join Nathan Lane & Andrew Garfield in Angels in America|last=Lefkowitz|first=Andy|date=2018-01-09|publisher=Broadway.com|access-date=2018-01-10|language=en}}</ref> Previews began on February 23, 2018, with opening night on March 25.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/angels-in-america-broadway-transfer_44559.html|title=Angels in America announces Broadway transfer|last=Wood|first=Alex|date=2017-08-07|publisher=WhatsOnStage.com|access-date=2017-09-07}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The production won for [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]] at that year's [[72nd Tony Awards|Tony Awards]], with Garfield and Lane winning for [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play]] and [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play]] respectively for their reprisal of their National Theatre performances, while Denise Gough and Susan Brown were nominated for [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play]]. The production was recorded as an audiobook by [[Random House Audio]], with Malone as the Angel and [[Bobby Canavale]] and [[Edie Falco]] narrating.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Angels in America by Tony Kushner: 9780593153949 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books| work = PenguinRandomhouse.com| access-date = 2020-12-29| url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604083/angels-in-america-by-tony-kushner/}}</ref>

A critically acclaimed production opened at [[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1718/12033.asp |title=Angels in America at Berkeley Rep |website=www.berkeleyrep.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813021904/http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1718/12033.asp |archive-date=2017-08-13}}</ref> in April 2018, directed by original commissioner [[Tony Taccone]] and featuring [[Randy Harrison]] as Prior, [[Stephen Spinella]] (who originated Prior Walter on Broadway) as Roy Cohn, Carmen Roman as Hannah, Benjamin T. Ismail as Louis, Danny Binstock as Joe, Bethany Jillard as Harper, Francisca Faridany and Lisa Ramirez alternating as the Angel, and Caldwell Tidicue, better known as [[Bob the Drag Queen]], making his stage debut as Belize.

In the spring of 2023, Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage presented Part 1, ''Millennium Approaches'', starkly staged by Hungarian director Janos Szasz.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/2022-23-season/angels-in-america/ | title=Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches }}</ref> ''The Washington Post''{{'}}s critic noted "''Angels in America'' is back in freshly provocative, exhilarating form," particularly "the collision of seven disparate figures...who interconnect over matters political, medical, romantic — and most malignantly, through the machinations of one of them, lawyer Roy Cohn, played by Edward Gero to the toxic T."<ref>{{cite news| last=Marks | first=Peter | title=Review - 'Angels in America' is back in freshly provocative, exhilarating form | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=2 April 2023 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/02/angels-america-kushner-arena-stage/ | access-date=14 May 2023}}</ref>
The South Australian revival of ''Millennium Approaches'' & ''Perestroika'' directed by Hayley Horton as performed at the Adelaide Little Theatre by the Adelaide Theatre Guild from 2 May 2024 - 25 May 2024. The production starred Kate Anolak as Hannah, Lee Cook as Louis, Rachel Dalton as The Angel, Brant Eustice as Roy, Matt Houston as Prior, Casmira Lorien as Harper, Eric McDowell and Belize and Lindsay Prodea as Joe with original music by Phil Short.

In October 2024, a production of the play opened at [[Finnish National Theatre]] where it had also run three decades earlier in 1994. The new production was adapted to a single four-hour play by Linda Wallgren who also directed it.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parkkinen |first1=Pia |title=Aids-kriisiä kuvaava mammuttinäytelmä on yhä ajankohtainen – yksi rooleista on Donald Trumpin oppi-isä |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20116196 |access-date=16 January 2025 |publisher=Yle |date=8 October 2024 |language=Finnish}}</ref>

In April 2025, the [[Toneelgroep Amsterdam|International Theatre Amsterdam]] ensemble performed a new production of the play, remaking the 2008 version directed by ITA director [[Ivo van Hove]]. Kushner expressed his admiration for the 2008 production, called it the best iteration of the play he had seen so far.

==Staging==
Kushner prefers that the theatricality be transparent. In his notes about staging, he writes: "The plays benefit from a pared-down style of presentation, with scenery kept to an evocative and informative minimum. [...] I recommend rapid scene shifts (no blackouts!), employing the cast as well as stagehands in shifting the scene. This must be an actor-driven event. [...] The moments of magic [...] are to be fully imagined and realized, as wonderful ''theatrical'' illusions—which means it's OK if the wires show, and maybe it's good that they do..."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kushner |first=Tony |url=http://archive.org/details/angelsinamericag0000kush |title=Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes |date=2013 |publisher=New York : Theatre Communications Group |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-55936-395-2}}</ref> Kushner is an admirer of [[Bertolt Brecht]], who practiced a style of theatrical production whereby audiences were often reminded that they were in a theatre. The choice to have "no blackouts" allows audiences to participate in the construction of a malleable theatrical world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-17 |title=Ten Things You Might Not Know About Angels in America |url=https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2022/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-angels-america |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=www.arts.gov |language=en}}</ref>

One of the many theatrical devices in ''Angels'' is that each of the eight main actors has one or several other minor roles in the play. For example, the actor playing the nurse, Emily, also plays the Angel, Sister Ella Chapter (a real estate agent), and a homeless woman. This [[dual role|doubling and tripling of roles]] encourages the audience to consider the elasticity of, for example, gender and sexual identities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Function of Dual Roles in Tony Kushner's Angels in... {{!}} Bartleby |url=https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-Function-of-Dual-Roles-in-Tony-P3M6ZFYVC |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=www.bartleby.com}}</ref>

== Cast ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:1000;"
! rowspan="2" |Characters
!World Premiere
!London debut
!Broadway debut 
!HBO Miniseries 
!Off-Broadway <br/> Revival
!2nd Off-Broadway <br/> Revival
!1st London <br/> Revival
!1st Broadway <br/> Revival
|-
!<small>1991/1992</small>
! colspan="2" |<small>1993</small>
!<small>2003</small>
! colspan="2" |<small>2010</small>
!<small>2017</small>
!<small>2018</small>
|-
!Prior Walter
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Sean Chapman]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Stephen Dillane]] 
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Stephen Spinella]] 
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Justin Kirk]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Christian Borle]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Michael Urie]]
| colspan="2" align="center"| [[Andrew Garfield]]
|-
!Louis Ironson
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Marcus D'Amico]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Jason Isaacs]] 
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Joe Mantello]] 
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Ben Shenkman]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Zachary Quinto]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Adam Driver]]
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[James McArdle]]
|-
!Joe Pitt
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Nick Reding (actor)|Nick Reding]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Daniel Craig]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[David Marshall Grant]] 
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Patrick Wilson]]
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Bill Heck]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Russell Tovey]] 
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Lee Pace]] 
|-
!Harper Pitt
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Felicity Montagu]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Clare Holman]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Marcia Gay Harden]] 
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Mary-Louise Parker]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | [[Zoe Kazan]]
| colspan="1" align="center" | Keira Keeley
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Denise Gough]]
|-
![[Roy Cohn]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Henry Goodman]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[David Schofield (actor)|David Schofield]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Ron Leibman]] 
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Al Pacino]]
| colspan="2" align="center"| [[Frank Wood (actor)|Frank Wood]]
| colspan="2" align="center"| [[Nathan Lane]] 
|-
!Belize 
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Joseph Mydell]]
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Jeffrey Wright]]
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Billy Porter (actor)|Billy Porter]]
| colspan="2" align="center" | [[Nathan Stewart-Jarrett]]
|-
!The Angel
| colspan="2" align="center"| Nancy Crane
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Ellen McLaughlin]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Emma Thompson]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Robin Weigert]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| Sofia Jean Gomez
| colspan="2" align="center"| [[Amanda Lawrence]]
|-
!Hannah Pitt
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Rosemary Martin]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| Susan Engel
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Kathleen Chalfant]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Meryl Streep]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| [[Robin Bartlett]]
| colspan="1" align="center"| Lynne McCollough
| colspan="2" align="center"| [[Susan Brown (English actress)|Susan Brown]]
|}

==Adaptations==
===HBO miniseries===
{{Main|Angels in America (miniseries){{!}}''Angels in America'' (miniseries)}}
In 2003, [[HBO Films]] created a [[Angels in America (miniseries)|miniseries adaptation of the play]]. Kushner adapted his original text for the screen, and [[Mike Nichols]] directed. [[HBO]] broadcast the film in various formats: three-hour segments that correspond to ''Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'', as well as one-hour "chapters" that roughly correspond to an act or two of each of these plays. The first three chapters were initially broadcast on December 7, to international acclaim, with the final three chapters following. ''Angels in America'' was the most watched made-for-cable film in 2003 and won both the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film|Golden Globe]] and [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series|Emmy]] for Best Limited Series.

Kushner made certain changes to his play (especially Part Two, ''Perestroika'') for it to work on screen, but the HBO adaptation is generally a faithful representation of Kushner's original work. Kushner has been quoted as saying that he knew Nichols was the right person to direct the film when, at their first meeting, Nichols immediately said that he wanted actors to play [[dual role|multiple roles]], as had been done in stage productions.

The main cast consists of [[Al Pacino]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Emma Thompson]], [[Jeffrey Wright]] (reprising his Tony-winning Broadway role), [[Justin Kirk]], [[Ben Shenkman]], [[Patrick Wilson]], and [[Mary-Louise Parker]].

===Opera===
''Angels in America – The Opera'' made its world premiere at the [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris, France, on November 23, 2004. The opera was based on both parts of the ''Angels in America'' fantasia, however the script was re-worked and condensed to fit both parts into a two and half hour show. [[Composer]] [[Peter Eötvös]] explains: "In the opera version, I put less emphasis on the political line than Kushner...I rather focus on the passionate relationships, on the highly dramatic suspense of the wonderful text, on the permanently uncertain state of the visions." A German version of the opera followed suit in mid-2005. The opera made its US debut in June 2006 at the [[Stanford Calderwood Pavilion]] in Boston, Massachusetts.

===Music===
The text of Prior Walter's monologue from Act 5, Scene 5 of ''Perestroika'' was set to music by [[Michael Shaieb]] for a 2009 festival celebrating Kushner's work at the [[Guthrie Theater]]. The work was commissioned by the [[Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus]], which had commissioned Shaieb's ''[[Through A Glass, Darkly (musical)|Through A Glass, Darkly]]'' in 2008. The work premiered at the Guthrie in April 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnartists.org/article/inside-guthries-kushner-celebration|title=Inside Guthrie's "Kushner Celebration"|first=Jaime|last=Kleiman|publisher=MN Artists|date=2009-04-08|access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/fatlabmusic/sets/kushner-trilogy|title="Kusher Trilogy"|first=Michael|last=Shaieb|publisher=Soundcloud|date=2009|access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref>

==Critical reception==

''Angels in America'' received numerous awards, including the [[47th Tony Awards|1993]] and [[48th Tony Awards|1994]] [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Awards for Best Play]]. The play's first part, ''Millennium Approaches'', received the [[1993 Pulitzer Prize#Arts awards|1993]] [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]].

The play garnered much praise upon its release for its dialogue and exploration of social issues. "Mr. Kushner has written the most thrilling [[Theater in the United States|American play]] in years," wrote ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/05/theater/review-theater-angels-america-millennium-approaches-embracing-all-possibilities.html|title=Review/Theater: ''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''; Embracing All Possibilities in Art and Life|first=Frank|last=Rich|date=May 5, 1993 | work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

A decade after the play's premiere, ''[[Metro Weekly]]'' labeled it "one of the most important pieces of theater to come out of the late 20th century."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/tv/?ak=762 |title=Soaring Angels: ''Angels in America'' on HBO: TV section |publisher=Metro Weekly |date=2003-12-04 |access-date=2012-01-14}}</ref>

By contrast, in an essay titled "Angles in America", the cultural critic [[Lee Siegel (cultural critic)|Lee Siegel]] wrote in ''[[The New Republic]]'', "''Angels in America'' is a second-rate play written by a second-rate playwright who happens to be gay, and because he has written a play about being gay, and about AIDS, no one—and I mean no one—is going to call ''Angels in America'' the overwrought, coarse, posturing, formulaic mess that it is."<ref>[http://www.tnr.com/article/angles-america Angles in America] tnr.com</ref> In his 1995 book ''Homos'', literary critic and queer theorist [[Leo Bersani]] called ''Angels in America'' a "muddled and pretentious play", "[whose] enormous success [...] is a sign, if we need still another one, of how ready and anxious America is to see and hear about gays—provided we reassure America how familiar, how morally sincere, and, particularly in the case of Kushner's work, how innocuously full of significance we can be."<ref name="Bersani, Leo 1995">{{cite book |last1=Bersani |first1=Leo |title=Homos |date=1995 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-40619-2 |pages=69 }}</ref>

===Controversy===
In response to the frank treatment of homosexuality and AIDS, and brief male nudity, the play quickly became subject to controversial reaction from conservative and religious groups, sometimes labelled as being part of the "[[culture war]]".<ref>{{cite news|last=Tannenbaum|first=Pery|title=Southern Rapture recalls the local ''Angels in America'' flap|url=http://clclt.com/charlotte/southern-rapture-recalls-the-local-angels-in-america-flap/Content?oid=2152471|access-date=December 6, 2011|newspaper=Charlotte Creative Loafing|date=April 7, 2009}}</ref> In Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1996, there were protests held outside a production of the play by the Charlotte Repertory Theatre at the [[North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center]].<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2005.00426.x | year = 2005 | title = A Question of Morality: Artists' Values and Public Funding for the Arts | journal = Public Administration Review | volume = 65 | issue = 1 | pages = 8–17 | jstor = 3542577 | last1 = Lewis | first1 = Gregory B. | last2 = Brooks | first2 = Arthur C.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sack|first=Kevin|title=Play Displays a Growing City's Cultural Tensions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/us/play-displays-a-growing-city-s-cultural-tensions.html|access-date=December 6, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 22, 1996}}</ref> This led to funding cuts for the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte, the city's arts funding agency, in the following year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dobrzynsky|first=Judith H.|title=Across U.S., Brush Fires Over Money for the Arts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/14/us/across-us-brush-fires-over-money-for-the-arts.html|access-date=December 6, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 14, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=County Strikes At Arts Council Over Gay Play|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/03/us/county-strikes-at-arts-council-over-gay-play.html|access-date=December 6, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1997}}</ref>
A 1999 production at [[Kilgore College]], a community college in [[Kilgore, Texas]], sparked protests from area and national [[homophobic]] groups and led to the town's mayor and commissioners pulling funds for the [[Texas Shakespeare Festival]], which the production's director also ran. Kushner wrote a letter of support to the cast and crew, and the production did go forward.<ref>{{cite news|title=When 'Angels in America' Came to East Texas|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/angels-in-east-texas/|access-date=November 14, 2020|newspaper=Texas Monthly|date=November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Greetings, Prophet!|url=https://snapjudgment.org/episode/greetings-prophet/|access-date=November 14, 2020|newspaper=Snap Judgement|date=November 13, 2020}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

===''Millennium Approaches''===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="20%"| Award
! width="45%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |1990
| colspan="3" |Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays<ref name=kennedy>[https://http "Fund For New American Plays"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114075411/https://http/ |date=January 14, 2016 }} Kennedy Center, accessed April 25, 2011</ref>
| {{won|Non-competitive}}
|-
| rowspan="2"style="text-align: center;" |1991
| Bay Area Drama Critics Award
| colspan="2" | Best Play
| {{won}}
|-
| National Arts Club
| colspan="2" | Joseph Kesselring Award
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" |1992
| rowspan="4" |[[1992 Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olivier Winners 1992|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-1992/|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Olivier Awards|language=en-GB}}</ref>
| colspan="2" |[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play|Play of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor|Actor of the Year]]
|[[Marcus D'Amico]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|[[Henry Goodman]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Play|Best Director of a Play]]
|[[Declan Donnellan]]
|{{nom}}
|-
| [[Evening Standard Theatre Awards|Evening Standard Theatre Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Standard|first=Evening|date=2019-11-05|title=Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1980-2003|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-19802003-7299246.html|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
|[[Evening Standard Theatre Awards#Best Play|Best Play]]
|[[Tony Kushner]]
|{{won}}
|-
| [[Critics' Circle Theatre Award]]
| colspan="2" | Best New Play
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="22" style="text-align:center;"|1993
| rowspan="9" |[[47th Tony Awards|Tony Awards]]
| colspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
|[[Ron Leibman]]
|{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|Best Featured Actor in a Play]]
|[[Stephen Spinella]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[Joe Mantello]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Featured Actress in a Play]]
|[[Kathleen Chalfant]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
|[[Marcia Gay Harden]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
|[[George C. Wolfe]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play|Best Scenic Design in a Play]]
|[[Robin Wagner (designer)|Robin Wagner]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Lighting Design|Best Lighting Design]]
|[[Jules Fisher]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="9" | [[Drama Desk Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play|Best Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
|[[Ron Leibman]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play]]
|[[Stephen Spinella]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Joe Mantello]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[David Marshall Grant]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
|[[Kathleen Chalfant]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Marcia Gay Harden]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play|Outstanding Director of a Play]]
| [[George C. Wolfe]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design|Outstanding Lighting Design]]
|[[Jules Fisher]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[New York Drama Critics' Circle|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]]
| colspan="2" |Best Play
| {{Won}}
|-
| colspan="3" |[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Drama "Pulitzer Prize, Drama"] pulitzer.org, accessed April 25, 2011]</ref>
| {{won}}
|}

===''Perestroika''===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="20%"| Award
! width="45%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |1992
|Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
| colspan="2" |Best New Play
|{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="15" style="text-align:center;" |1994
| rowspan="6" |[[48th Tony Awards|Tony Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Play|Best Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
|[[Stephen Spinella]]
|{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|Best Featured Actor in a Play]]
|[[Jeffrey Wright]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[David Marshall Grant]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
|[[George C. Wolfe]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Lighting Design|Best Lighting Design]]
|[[Jules Fisher]]
|{{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[1994 Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olivier Winners 1994|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-1994/|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Olivier Awards|language=en-GB}}</ref>
| colspan="2" |[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play|Play of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|[[Joseph Mydell]]
|{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="6" | [[Drama Desk Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play|Best Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
|[[Stephen Spinella]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play|Outstanding Actress in a Play]]
|[[Kathleen Chalfant]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play]]
|[[Jeffrey Wright]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Ron Leibman]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
|[[Marcia Gay Harden]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[New York Drama Critics' Circle|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]]
| colspan="2" |Best Play
| {{Runner-up}}
|}

=== ''Angels in America'' ===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="20%"| Award
! width="45%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
|rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;" |1994
|rowspan="3"|[[Outer Critics Circle Award]]
| colspan="2" |Best Broadway Play
| {{won}}
|-
|Best Director - Play
|[[George C. Wolfe]]
| {{won}}
|-
|Best Debut Performance
|[[Jeffrey Wright]]
| {{won}}
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |2017
|[[Evening Standard Theatre Awards|Evening Standard Theatre Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thompson|first=Jessie|date=2017-12-04|title=These are the winners of the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2017-the-ferryman-scoops-three-gongs-as-andrew-garfield-takes-home-best-actor-a3708021.html|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
|[[Evening Standard Theatre Awards#Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|[[Andrew Garfield]]
|{{won}}
|-
| rowspan="32" style="text-align:center;" |2018
| rowspan="6" | [[2018 Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival|Best Revival]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Andrew Garfield]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|[[James McArdle]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Denise Gough]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Marianne Elliott (director)|Marianne Elliott]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design|Best Lighting Design]]
| [[Paule Constable]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="11" |[[72nd Tony Awards|Tony Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
| [[Andrew Garfield]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play|Best Featured Actor in a Play]]
| [[Nathan Lane]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Featured Actress in a Play]]
| [[Susan Brown (English actress)|Susan Brown]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Denise Gough]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
|[[Marianne Elliott]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| [[Adrian Sutton]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play|Best Scenic Design of a Play]]
| [[Ian MacNeil (scenic designer)|Ian MacNeil]] and Edward Pierce 
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play|Best Costume Design of a Play]]
| [[Nicky Gillibrand]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play|Best Lighting Design of a Play]]
| [[Paule Constable]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play|Best Sound Design of a Play]]
| Ian Dickinson
| {{nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="7" | [[Drama Desk Award]]
| colspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play|Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
| [[Andrew Garfield]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[James McArdle]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play]]
| [[Nathan Lane]]
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play|Outstanding Director of a Play]]
|[[Marianne Elliott]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play|Music in a Play]]
| Adrian Sutton
| {{nominated}}
|-
|[[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Puppet Design|Outstanding Puppet Design]]
| Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes
| {{nominated}}
|-
|rowspan="6"|Outer Critics Circle Award
| colspan="2" |Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
| {{win}}
|-
|Outstanding Actor in a Play
| [[Andrew Garfield]]
|{{win}}
|-
|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
| [[Nathan Lane]]
|{{win}}
|-
|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
| [[Denise Gough]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|Outstanding Director of a Play
|[[Marianne Elliott (director)|Marianne Elliott]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)
| [[Paule Constable]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[Drama League Awards|Drama League Award]]
| colspan="2" |Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
|{{won}}
|-
|Distinguished Performance Award
|Andrew Garfield
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |2020
|[[Audie Award|Audie Audiobook Award]]
| colspan="2" |Best Audio Drama
|{{won}}
|}

==See also==
*[[Art of the AIDS Crisis]]
*''[[The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America]]'' – an oral history of the play

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Angels in America: Millennium Approaches}}
* {{IBDB show|1596|Angels in America: Millennium Approaches}}
* {{IBDB show|1597|Angels in America: Perestroika}}
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q937342}}

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